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"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
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"Expect to wonder to find wonder."

"Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again."

"It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded..."

"We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders."

"Don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive..."

"There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There are at least a million different types of minerals as there are species of birds or monkeys. The possible configurations of lifeforms that could be created from a single atom are infinite. There are at least a billion people on this earth, and no two faces look the same. It is very arrogant to assume that we have seen all of God's miracles."
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"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."


"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be."


"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."


"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."


"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."


"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."
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